Sighting apparatus for firearms.



M. KLINGLER. SIGHTING APPARATUS FOR FIREARMS. APPLIOATIDN FILED JAN. 30,1906.

945880. I .Patwted Nov. 24, 1908.

WITNESSES mechanic, a subject of the King of Wiirtem- UNITE; era

as PATENT oimen MATTHliUS KLINGLER, OF OBERNDORF-ON-THE-IECKAR, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO WAF- FENFABRIK MAUSEB. AKTIENGESELIJSCHAFI, OF OBERNDORF-ON-THE-NECKAR,

ERMANY.

SIGHTING APPARATUS FOR FIREARMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application filed January 30, 1906. Serial No. 298,625.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l. ivlix'r'rnili's 'Kmxom-zn,

form thickness the sides of which are enibraced by the slide 1". This leaf 1) is provided \vlth a graduated scale and itis so berg, residing at ()hernth,rf-on-the-Xeckar. curved as to enable this scale to be graduattal in the Kingdom of ll'iirte nberg, Germany, 1 in equal or at'all events approximately equal an have invented certain new and 'useful Imdistances. The projections upon the slide provements Relating to- Improved t lighting which project inwardly over the longitudi- Apparatus for Firearms. of which the fol 'nal edges of the leaf 0 are each tapered to a lowing is a full. clear, and exact description, knife edge so as to serve as indicators for The present invention relates to pivoted the sighting scale. a, or rising sights of that type which are The slide 1: has the usual rectilineal movehinged upon the top of the sight bed, and in ment over the bed 1/ and is secured in posiwhich the curved leaf of the sight is erected tion by means of plungers which engage in either positively by means of a slide, or by l notches provided upon the edge of the bed 5 spring pressure from above or below,- and in 11. in the example shown the plungcrs .c '70 which the adjustment of the leaf has hitherand f, which are, as usual, spring-actuated, to been effected by the slide through a curxed'i lie side by side (Figs. .2, i and 5} and are guide in the form of lateral 1)l'() l((jtlt)ll$ or respectively provided with detents and f1 ribs carried by the leaf for the purpose of which, actuated by the springs pertaining o enabling the sighting scale to be equally to the said plungers, alternately and autodivided. 'l-leretofore such plungers have matically engage with the notches a. probeen arranged one on each side of the sight vided in the bed a. 'lhese notches are so and moved in opposite directions. arranged in relation to the detents g and h The characteristic feature of the improveof the plungers thatone or the other detent. ments, to which this invention-relates, concomes into engagement with a notch a sists in the fact that for the purpose of en whenever theslide 'is i'noved upon the gradu- -al')ling the adjustment to be effected directly. ated scale through a distance. corresponding that is to say, without the intervention of a to farmeters. separate curved guide. while at the same The release of the plunger for the time time employing an equally divided scale. the being in engagement is effected by pressing S5 leaf of the sight has itself the form of a upon the head thereof; the arangement single curved plate that is free from cross being such that the release of either plunger pieces or ribs. and hears upon its face the can be elfected from the same side by simply equally divided scale. )vlorcovcr. in the pressinginwardly the head of that plunger sight in accordance with this invention, the c or which happens at the time to project arrangement is such'that tworeadings can outwardly. v

be determined by means of eachnoteh; this In order to etfect the adjustment of the being effected by so arranging the plunger-s slide from a smaller to a greater range, the whereby the slide is held that they lie side heads of both the plunger-s e and must be i by side, and move in the same direction, so pressed inwards whereupon the slide 0 can that the movement of the slide from one to easily be moved over the bed a of the sight. the other of the marks corresponding to two and the leaf 7) thereof can be so raised as to successive readings. can be ctlectcd by prescome into contact withone or other of its sure exerted fromthe one side. two guiding surfaces; this being efi'ected The accompanying drawing illustrates a either positively or by spring pressure exsighting apparatus made in accordance with cited from above or below. this invention; Figure 1 being a longitudinal l/Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire section, Fig. 2 a transverse section; Fig. 3 a to secure by Patent. is: plan; Fig. 4 a partial underside view and I 1. A sighting apparatus for fire arms,- Fig. 5 a side elevation of the apparatus. comprising a slide adapted to move backshowing its sight adjusted to a certain range. ward and forward along the'sight bed, a The sight consists, as usual, of the tubular l sighting leaf pivoted at one end and adapted bed a mounted on the barrel or the like, the. to swing upwardly and downwardly, said leaf 7), and the slide 1:. In the example leaf comprising a plate of curved: form of 55 shown, the leaf 1) is formed as a plate of unisubstantially uniform thickness from side to 1ft) side, said plate having a sighting scale directly so as to control its adjustment, and

Substantially uniformly spaced along its upper side, said slide having pointers extending O\'Bl tl1lf top of the plate and adapted to coiiperate with said scale, said pointers engaging the upper face of the plate and preventing the latter from moving except in accordance with the movements of said slide.

2. A sighting apparatus for tire arms, comprising a slide adapted to more rectilinearly along the sight heth and a sighting lcal adapted to swing upwardly and Io\\'n- \vardly said leaf comprising a plate of means in connection with said scale for determining the positioiji of said plate, a part having a series of notches, and two detents carried by said slide adapted. to engage said notches, such detents having actuating parts on the same side of said slide, so that either can be adjusted from such side, and so that two readings can he obtained by means of a sii'igle notch.

in Wltlltn'i whereof, I have hereunto aigned my name in the presence of two subscribing Win16.

lilAiTll AU KLIXG LE1 \V itnesses Runner 1 l.\ rm-1n, ERNST GWININER. 

